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Beautiful Thing Director: Hettie MacDonald Cast: Andrew Fraser, Linda Henry, Glen Berry, Julie Smith

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  • DVD Release Date: 05/20/2003
  • Original Release: 1996
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 18,327

Viewer Rating: (11 ratings)

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Closed Caption; Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video; Widescreen; English Dolby Digital Stereo; Bonus trailers; Interactive menus; Scene selections

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Start [3:30]
2. Home Early [2:18]
3. "One Way Ticket" [2:33]
4. Funny Tummy Accident [1:38]
5. "What's That Bloody Noise?" [2:33]
6. Tony [:42]
7. Dinner With the Pearces [1:04]
8. "Age Is Just a Number" [1:57]
9. Leah & Slasher [3:09]
10. A Word With Mr. Barr [1:33]
11. Comforting Ste [1:50]
12. A Young Man's Fancy [3:07]
13. The Interview [:58]
14. "California Earthquake" [5:38]
15. A Lot Like His Dad? [3:30]
16. "Ever Kissed Anyone?" [9:17]
17. Worried About Ste [3:37]
18. A Venomous Little Cow [7:29]
19. A Gift for Jamie [1:36]
20. Gay Times [4:35]
21. The Gloucester [2:14]
22. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" [1:34]
23. No Time for Lying [6:26]
24. "Creeque Alley" [3:32]
25. "I Don't Believe in Secrets" [2:52]
26. The Anchor [2:24]
27. End of the Affair [2:56]
28. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" [6:19]

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Editorial Reviews

In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homosexuality. Introspective Jamie (Glen Berry) is the son of Sandra (Linda Henry), a tough but warm-hearted barmaid who lives in a public housing block in a rough-and-tumble section of South London. Living a few doors away is Jamie's classmate Ste (Scott Neal), an athletic type who often has to take a beating from his hard-drinking father and hard-headed brother. One night, Jamie and Sandra discover that Ste has been kicked out of the apartment and has nowhere to spend the night; Jamie lets him stay at his place, and a casual closeness eventually stirs sexual feelings. While both were vaguely aware they might be gay, neither had ever acted on their impulses, and once Jamie and Ste decide that they're attracted to each other, neither is sure just what to do. Tony (Ben Daniels), Sandra's boyfriend, doesn't know what to think about Jamie's new lifestyle. Meanwhile, Jamie and Ste are themselves a bit puzzled by their neighbor Leah (Tameka Empson), a teenager obsessed with the life and music of Mama Cass Elliott. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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What this movie does to you is a "Beautiful Thing"!by Anonymous

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October 27, 2009: Jamie and Ste, the two lead characters of the movie, find love in an unaccepting south London "redneck" world where everything is going against them. The mother, played by Linda Henry, and the struggles of her everyday life as a single mother showing her love and compassion after finding out Jamie and Ste are gay is a "Beautiful Thing". The mother's boyfriend who's 8 years younger brings an interesting twist to the tale as well as Leah, the Mama Cass loving girl who lives next door who brings lots of laughs and tragedy is an unbelievable character you won't forget. The music of Mama Cass highlights appropriately throughout the movie and the scene of the boys running through the woods, as well as the ending will bring tears to your eyes.

Gay, straight or bi, this movie has something for everyone to relate to ... single parenting, parental and sibling abuse, alcohol and drug addiction, bullying and more, I think you'll find either yourself or someone you know in one of the characters. I highly recommend giving this "Sony Classic" film a view. Afterall, Sony wouldn't have classified it as a classic for nothing!

I Also Recommend: Un Amour a Taire, Gone, But Not Forgotten, Skin & Bone, A Home at the End of the World, Shelter.

Parts are Greatby OutAndAbout

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January 19, 2009: I found the scenes between the two boys were moving and believable. You can feel the chemistry and if all you had were those scenes, I think it would be awesome as a love story.. However, I found the other scenes and characters rather odd, crass and difficult to relate to. So the plot around the boys did not do alot for me. It is well worth seeing just for the scenes with the boys: coming out to themselves and each other, first time going to a gay bar, and the scene at the end shows they have become comfortable with themselves and the heck with what the world thinks.


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